--- title: Pacific & Oceanic Studies description: Pacific and Oceanic studies explores the history, cultures, and environments of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australasia. Learners will understand indigenous navigation, colonial histories, environmental challenges, and contemporary geopolitical issues in the Pacific region. category: humanities subcategory: area-studies difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/pacific-and-oceanic-studies --- # Pacific & Oceanic Studies Pacific and Oceanic studies explores the history, cultures, and environments of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australasia. Learners will understand indigenous navigation, colonial histories, environmental challenges, and contemporary geopolitical issues in the Pacific region. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 2 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Pacific Islands Report A regional news digest and analysis site on Pacific island affairs, run by the East-West Center's Pacific Islands Development Program with the University of Hawaiʻi's Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Covers politics, climate, fisheries, and development. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.pireport.org/ **Tags:** pacific-islands, oceania, regional-news, development-policy ### 2. Pacific Islands Development Program The East-West Center program in Honolulu that has served Pacific island governments since 1980 through policy research, capacity building, and its role as secretariat of the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders. Collects regional policy publications. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://eastwestcenter.org/programs/pacific-islands-development-program **Tags:** pacific-islands, oceania, development-policy, regional-governance ## Podcasts ### 1. Oceania **Author:** CPIS Voices, stories and conversations with criss-crossing currents between the past, present and future that flow deep and across Oceania, and beyond. Brought to you by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://rss.com/podcasts/oceaniacurrents **Tags:** oceania, pacific-islands-studies, indigenous-voices, interviews ## Books ### 1. Sea People **Author:** Christina Thompson Thompson traces two centuries of archaeology, linguistics, oral tradition and experimental voyaging that reconstructed how Polynesians settled the remote Pacific. Readers finish able to follow the main evidence and disputes behind competing settlement theories. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062060880?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, area-studies ### 2. We, the Navigators **Author:** David Lewis Lewis sailed with Pacific master navigators in the 1960s and recorded their methods: star paths, swell patterns, bird behaviour and land signs. Explains how position and landfall were held without instruments across long open-ocean passages. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0824815823?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, area-studies ### 3. Possessing the Pacific **Author:** Stuart Banner Banner compares how British and American settlers acquired indigenous land across Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, British Columbia and Alaska, showing why legal doctrines differed by colony. Clarifies how property law encoded assumptions about indigenous sovereignty. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674026128?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, area-studies --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/pacific-and-oceanic-studies